You wanted a ghost story
With a twist?
Here’s the twist-
I’m the ghost
You can laugh
Shake your head
Take a bath
Go back to bed
I’m not lying
Not a bit
I’m here sighing
I can’t even sit
If I don’t concentrate,
Things go through my skin
I don’t have any weight
My ‘bones’ are papery thin
How am I writing?
Well I just keep fighting
These worlds that I create
I live in them you see
Bouncing from state to state
The characters are my family
So I’m a ghost
Sorry for keeping it from you
Not like I can boast
About being in the undead crew
You still think I’m lying
That this is all fake
You’re not buying
Think it’s a story I make
You can think what you want
You can scoff all you want
You can shake your head in disbelief
Take a sigh in some relief
I’m just a spirit
I’m pretty dead
Call me an ‘it’
I can’t even eat bread
Let me tell you something
It’s nothing like TV
They have nothing
Us you can see
We’re a little transparent
A little tainted white
But there’s nothing about us to fear
We don’t haunt the night
I’m just like you
But I’m really not
I don’t say boo
But I don’t get hot
I don’t need to eat
I don’t need to shower
I don’t feel the heat
And I don’t have any power
I can go where I please
But I don’t age at all
I don’t feel the breeze
And I can’t play with a ball
I don’t get sick
I can’t fall in love
Or get hit with a brick
I don’t feel a shove
And my blood isn’t thick
I have friends
They live in my head
Our fun never ends
When we tie our thread
Pulling and tying
Making sure to think hard
Forget about crying
Do you see a guard?
Are you confused now?
Even more than before?
Can you not see how?
I’ll tell you more
I have lots of thin thread
In all different colors
My favorite is red
I find that it covers
All the blood
Once it falls out
It covers the blood
And I muffle their shout
Who, you wonder
What do I do?
Outside, booms the thunder
I’ll tell you
Listen to me closely
Do you hear?
It’ll seem very ghostly
But there’s nothing to fear…
Nothing to fear,
Though it seems scary
Nothing to fear
Even if you think it very
I’m just like you
You’re just like me
I do what I do
And I do it with glee
See I do what I feel
And I do what I please
Sometimes it leaves me with a meal
Other times with fleas
Am I making no sense once more?
Are you still confused?
You’ll get it soon for sure
Though sorry if you end up bruised
I told you I don’t eat
But that doesn’t mean I don’t get hungry
Sometimes I just want a treat
Yet no one wants to feed me
I must get food myself
But it’s a different hunger
A hunger in my soul
I feel much younger
I have but one goal
I take my long red thread
And I snip it with my teeth
They all end up dead
Their souls underneath
Ripe for the taking
Lovely and sweet
Still think I’m faking?
Then come watch me eat
I tie the thread tight
And pull the head off
I don’t take a bite
That would make me cough
I press my hands down
I close my eyes
Don’t give me that frown
I still hear your cries
This is just what I must do
Please don’t judge me
Not like I’m doing it to you
You don’t have to agree
But just leave me alone
If you won’t listen
Leave me alone
It’s my own decision
I wish I could cry
I feel so hurt
But I can’t even die
My body’s under the dirt
My soul bears the agony
My heart feels the pain
I’m losing my sanity
Again and again
Why should I spare everyone
And let the people live
It’s all in good fun
You have nothing you could give
For I’m just a spirit
I’m just air
Can you hear it?
The sound of my sweet despair
I feel like I’m dying
But I’m already gone
In my heart, I am crying
My body’s moved on
I know I’m doing wrong
I know it’s mean
My will isn’t strong
My conscience unclean
Sometimes I regret it
Sometimes I’m ashamed
And yet I never quit
Instincts be blamed
If this makes you shiver
Makes your skin crawl
Makes your lip quiver
Can’t hear more at all
Then I suggest you leave
Because it doesn’t end now
I don’t know how you’ll receive
When you hear how
I bury the body
Without cleaning the blood
It gets quite soggy
As if it’s covered in mud
It’s black and red
And other colors too
It spews from their head
It’s quite the view
It stains my hands
And my clothes too
Ruins my plans
Gives others a clue
Of what I was doing
During the night
Give them a reason to keep booing
At my sorry sight
But don’t think for a minute
That I even care
I have quite the limit
And it’s really rare
To see me snap
To lose my cool
Maybe slap
It’s a personal rule
I let others have their own opinion
Think what you want about me
But I’m not your minion
And my will is free
I’ll keep killing
You do you
I get my filling
Though I can’t undo
Families hate me
All of them do
So, you see
I kill them too
All alone
Is how I’m left
Future’s set in stone
And it’s not the best
You could say it’s my fault
And maybe it is
Soon I will bolt
Stop doing the biz
For now, just remember
That I’m a ghost
Remember remember, I haunt the night
Deeply sorry if I give you a fright...
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I love how you decided to tell the story through a poem. Great job on this! I really liked it! -Megan S.
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hey, ya there?
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Your 7th!! CONGOO!
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Heya amiga ^^
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Heya amiga, i just made a new story ^^ could you please check out "Otherworldly repairs" and leave some critique/feedback on it?
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heyyy
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ALERT! ALERT! I FINALLLLLLY MANAGED TO WRITE MY 21ST REEDSY STORY!!!! LITERALLY AFTER ALMOST 2 MONTHS, I GOT OUT A DYSTOPIAN STORY!!!!! Lol, ahem, excuse my celebration and partial shock. Would you mind checking it out? THANKSSSSSS AND YEEEEET!!!!!
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Heya amiga ^^ i think i could use a bit of help with some stuff
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heya
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Heyyyy convo? Oh also I just posted a new story if you wanted to read it
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hello, sissss! feels like we haven't talked in ages. How you doing, my chum!
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This is a wonderful story.Keep writing. Would you mind to read my story “Leaf me alone”Thanks?
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Hola amiga
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hola ^^
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This was written so beautifully I love the use of different words!
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Hola amiga ^^
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Great job Amany! I like how you used poetry to express this prompt! I like the wording of the poetry too, just like Shakespeare, but without the whole 'Art thou' and 'thou art'. Much easier to understand, I do still love the works of Shakespeare, it's just a little confusing sometimes. Keep it up!
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Hiiii (i'm so bored rn)
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I don't think I'm gonna make it😭I wrote like half of the story and like I just got so engulfed and also its about to be 3000 words and I haven't even gotten the reality scene in😭. So if you don't see the story in DON'T BE MAD😔
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Hey, are you alright? what's going on? i know this probably won't even help you or anything, but maybe I could tell ya some jokes to cheer you up a small bit? or maybe ya could just talk about it if ya want?
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